A poem for Christmas 2022
Arthur is away. Stephie is away more. And I am away from home At home with my babies, Searching with the magi for Joy. Artwork by the charity TADEC (Tanzania Deaf Child)
Creating conditions for ‘shining’ among Tanzanian students
My previous post refers to those who were impacted through TAFES as students 20-30 years ago, after which they graduated and went on to have ‘shining’ lives. In campus ministry, it may be some time before we begin to see the full effects of today’s work! What then can be […]
Shining! A vision for Tanzanian campus ministry in 2022
On the weekend I had the privilege of witnessing the 31st AGM of TAFES Tanzania and its second national Leadership Training Seminar. TAFES is a Christian organisation working with Tanzanian university and college campuses. The Tanzanian higher education sector had 259,266 students enrolled for the 2020-21 academic year, with about […]
Explore the inner workings of your university campus
As part of TAFES Go Conference I recently ran a webinar on ‘Engaging the whole campus’. A ministry like TAFES is focused on students, yet students are part of a specific place, the campus. What if that place has its own significance, and the significance of students is connected with […]
Pentecostalism can be a way of staying African
We were really pleased to read the recent short report by Daewon Moon, Pentecostalism in African Christianity: the formation and scope of a distinctive spirituality. He identifies African Pentecostalism as a distinctively African way of being Christian. Not only does this have its own indigenous African roots going back hundreds […]
Go ye and make disciples… in the cities: A vision for African campus ministry
Go Conference, the TAFES national conference, was held in Mwanza for 2020. A standout session was from Dr Charles Sokile on the call to urban ministry, ‘Go ye and make disciples… in the cities and urban places.’ Dr Sokile is a governance and development expert currently working as the Tanzania […]
Communitarian visions again
I was part of a UK Twitter conversation about the place of the church and the ‘parachurch.’ Eddie Arthur then responded on his blog, and what he said got me thinking: DNA: you can trace the origins of church congregations back to the New Testament. There has been a lot […]
Meet Jesus at uni 